What Is MD5 Message Digest Algorithm?

This section describes what is MD5 - a message digest algorithm which takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit 'fingerprint'.

Based on the MD5 RFC document, MD5 is message-digest algorithm, which takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input. It is conjectured that it is computationally infeasible to produce two messages having the same message digest, or to produce any message having a given pre-specified target message digest.

MD5 was designed by Ronald Rivest in 1991 to replace an earlier hash function, MD4. MD5 is more secure than MD4. However a number of weaknesses have been found in recent years. The most recent paper published in this area shows that a collision of MD5 can be found within one minute on a standard notebook PC, using a method called tunneling.

Despite its weaknesses, MD5 is widely used in digital signature processes. It's been implemented in many programming languages.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Cryptography Terminology

 Cryptography Basic Concepts

 Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

 Introduction to DES Algorithm

 DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs

 DES Algorithm Java Implementation

 DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE

 DES Encryption Operation Modes

 DES in Stream Cipher Modes

 PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt

 Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher

 Secret Key Generation and Management

 Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption

 Introduction of RSA Algorithm

 RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class

 Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)

 Java Default Implementation of DSA

 Private key and Public Key Pair Generation

 PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

 Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption

MD5 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

What Is MD5 Message Digest Algorithm?

 MD5 Message Digest Algorithm Overview

 Using MD5 Message Digest in Java

 Using MD5 Message Digest in PHP

 Using MD5 Message Digest in Perl

 SHA1 Mesasge Digest Algorithm

 OpenSSL Introduction and Installation

 OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys

 OpenSSL Managing Certificates

 OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR

 OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path

 "keytool" and "keystore" from JDK

 "OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"

 Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files

 Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats

 Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"

 Using Certificates in IE

 Using Certificates in Google Chrome

 Using Certificates in Firefox

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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